Internet and Information Literacy from the course History of Information This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as 'the information age.' We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect socieAuthor(s): No creator set

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How the Arctic Ecosystem Might Change In this video segment adapted from the National Film Board of Canada, learn why the unique Arctic ecosystem may be replaced if global warming continues to melt sea ice.Author(s): Creator not set

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Zoom into Olympic National Forest Time Lapse: 1984 to 1995 Zoom into a 1 mile square area in the Olympic National Forest showing appearance on dates: 26 July 1984, 13 July 1985, 29 May 1986, 29 March 1987, 21 September 1987, 21 July 1988, 13 September 1990, 16 September 1991, 2 March 1992, 11 September 1995Author(s): Darrel Williams,Jesse Allen

HoloGlobe: Filling the Atlantic Ocean This is one of a series of animations that were produced to be part of the narrated video shown in the HoloGlobe exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and the Earth Today exhibit at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.Author(s): Horace Mitchell,Jim Strong,Tom Watters

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Hurricane Erin from MODIS: September 5, 2001 Terra-MODIS is one of many satellites that NASA has that helps us here on the ground. Keeping track of Hurricane Erin, the instrument MODIS gives us a birds-eye view.Author(s): Stuart Snodgrass,Vincent Salomonson

Founding Mothers Sharp quills did the bidding of the even sharper intellects of the Revolution's founding mothers. Listen to the words of Mercy Otis Warren and Abigail Adams, voiced by Abigail Schumann.Author(s): No creator set

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Transient Heat Conduction - Lumped Capacitance from the course Heat Transfer This course covers transport processes of mass, momentum, and energy from a macroscopic view with emphasis both on understanding why matter behaves as it does and on developing practical problem solving skills. The course is divided into four parts: introduction, conduction, convection, and radiation.Author(s): No creator set